Before beginning patch application, check the consistency of
inventory information for GI home and each database home to be patched. Run
the following command as respective Oracle home owner to check the
consistency.

Apply the
Patch: (Note: This should apply patch in both GI and RDBMS Home but its
unreliable in that sense so after this completes, we need to check opatch
lsinventory to make sure that it also applied patches in RDBMS Home)

Make sure
the above applies both OCW and PSU patches. You can verify that from opatch
lsinventory. If only OCW patch is present in output and no PSU (which is
likely the case), then issue following from Oracle home with oracle database
owner after shutting down database:

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